Senior Manager Cyber Security - AI

Your New CompanyWe are partnering with a tier-one, leading financial institution in the UAE that is currently reshaping the future of banking. Backed by a huge investment into a newly established AI Center of Excellence, this institution is positioning itself at the absolute forefront of global financial innovation. As they pioneer first-of-its-kind autonomous systems and sovereign AI capabilities, they are establishing an elite, dedicated team to ensure these cutting-edge technologies are built, deployed, and governed with world-class security at their core.Your New RoleAs the Senior Manager – AI Security, you will take on a vital leadership and execution role within the bank's advanced technology division. Your mission will be to secure the future of AI-driven banking by ensuring that all artificial intelligence models, machine learning pipelines, and autonomous agentic systems are robust against emerging threats and fully compliant with global standards.This is a highly specialized role split 70% focused on deep cybersecurity execution and 30% on governance, ethics, and compliance. You will act as the defensive shield and regulatory anchor for the bank’s bleeding-edge AI initiatives.Key Responsibilities:AI Attack Surface Defense: Lead the technical security assessment of LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks, and AI agents. You will defend against specialized vectors like prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, and supply chain vulnerabilities.Secure AI Lifecycle: Embed rigorous security architecture and threat modeling into the entire data science and MLOps pipeline, ensuring code, training data, and model outputs remain entirely secure.AI Governance & Compliance: Own the 30% governance mandate by establishing enterprise-grade evaluation frameworks, ethical benchmarks, and risk mitigation strategies tailored to regional and international financial regulations.Observability & Guardrails: Design, implement, and monitor real-time AI guardrails and observability dashboards to track model fairness, data privacy, compliance drift, and adversarial anomalies.What You'll Need to SucceedThis role requires a unique intersection of advanced cyber defense capabilities and a sharp analytical mindset for tech governance.Deep Cybersecurity Expertise: A strong background in enterprise security architecture, threat modeling, and product security within a highly regulated environment (ideally Banking, FinTech, or Critical Infrastructure).AI/ML Security Specialization: Proven, hands-on experience securing AI systems. You must deeply understand how LLMs operate and how to defend the infrastructure supporting them (e.g., Azure OpenAI, LangChain, vector databases).Governance & Risk Frameworks: Strong familiarity with emerging AI governance standards, data privacy laws, and the ethical considerations of deploying automated decision-making systems in financial services.Cloud Infrastructure: Experience navigating and auditing secure cloud architectures, with a strong preference for the Azure ecosystem.Collaborative Leadership: Proven track record in a senior or managerial technical role, with the communication skills required to bridge the gap between deep-tech engineering squads, data science teams, and executive risk committees.What You'll Get in ReturnCompensation: A highly competitive tax-free salary package tailored for elite security talent.Benefits: Premium corporate benefits including comprehensive healthcare, allowances, and performance-based incentives.The Opportunity: This is an unparalleled opportunity to be a founding pillar of a pioneering AI Center of Excellence. You will not just be managing legacy security; you will be defining the frameworks for securing autonomous financial systems that are a genuine first of its kind in the region, giving you an elite global profile in the rapidly growing field of AI Security.What You Need to Do NowIf you are a cyber security expert ready to define the standard for AI defense and governance in the banking sector, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.